Anybody remember G.A.S.

Was there a tie-in or run-across with Monarchy Audio at some point in this whole story, or are my neurons fried?

You all got one of them wrong. Sleeping Beauty. Gasworks.com is run by Bettinger and he rebuilds and modifies the amplifiers.

I used a Shibata tipped Sleeping Beauty in a Fidelity Research FR-14 arm with a vacuum tube head amp on a Linn. This was in the late '70s. This was my favorite moving coil at the time. I also owned a Supex 900E and a Denon 103D.

Elgordo, I also owned the same things at the same time. I remember now the GAS cartridge being my favorite as well.

I certinly do! I had, at one time, the Ampzilla and Theadra per-amp. As I recall there was a 3 way battle for top honors in the Harry Perason camp between GAS, Audio Research and Mark Levinson (the company). I also recall that people who purchased Dalquist DQ-10 speakers used the GAS equipment to drive them....at least I did.